There’s one special comment called a ‘shebang’ that python scripts can start #! /usr/bin/env python3 Having this source code allows you execute the python file. First you need to make the file executable with the following chmod +x example.py to allow it to be invoked from command line without having to specify the interpreter to run it. If you have…
Cron is an incredible scheduler that is extremely versatile with a powerful scheduling engine and precise timing capability, but it’s typical run from a server’s root OS or container image. You could package a linux container with the cronjob task and a shell script as shown at the end of this post OR you can build your own python scheduled…
Command line arguments are the string of data and flags that are passed into a python script for execution to change behavior. You leverage the built-in sys module to get access to the sys.argv list. python example.py my name is david Number of arguments: 5 Argument List: [‘example.py’, ‘my’, ‘name’, ‘is’, ‘david’] The built-in getopt module can help parse command…